Mo Brooks Quotes

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.

Believe in something, and let that something be yourself.

The kiss was so soft she couldn’t believe this was the same bad boy who’d said such things to her with that mouth.

Her fingers traced his stomach, trying to remember this is real, this is real with each strike of her heart.

Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn’t have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth.

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you’re also non-threatening and slightly useless.

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

You will always be the answer, when somebody asks me what I'm thinking about.

Humor is just another defense against theuniverse.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.

Life is terribly awkward and uncomfortable, so we spend our time searching for those who make it all a little less unpleasant.

What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.

God has given us our own unique paths to follow in life. What's interesting is no one's journey is ever the same.

You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.

There’s no way I can care properly for my children if I don’t first care for myself.

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

Hope is the belief that everything will get better, even when you don't see any indication of improvement.

You can't allow the false ideas of defeat to discourage you. Every day you should feel encouraged to do your best, encouraged to be your best, and encouraged to work towards your best.

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

In the Presence of Love...there are Miracles...Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.

Vengeance is one of life's great motivators.

There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle—lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success.

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.